Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Greece and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Alton Ellis to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by John Coltrane. All the underground hits.
All Lyres tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roxy Music record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Selecter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Inner City,
Jimmy McGriff,
a-ha,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Zeros,
Eden Ahbez,
The Fire Engines,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Pantaleimon,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Janne Schatter,
Kayak,
Sun City Girls,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Erasure,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Toasters,
The Raincoats,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Stetsasonic,
The Index,
Carl Craig,
Suicide,
Marmalade,
Thompson Twins,
Byron Stingily,
E-Dancer,
Vainqueur,
Don Cherry,
Terry Callier,
Shoche,
John Cale,
Henry Cow,
Kenny Larkin,
ABBA,
The Monks,
David McCallum,
The United States of America,
Fugazi,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Khruangbin,
Suburban Knight,
X-Ray Spex,
Television,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Blackbyrds,
Max Romeo,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Glenn Branca,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Main Source,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Names,
Sixth Finger,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Mojo Men,
The Residents,
48th St. Collective,
Agitation Free,
Amon Düül,
Popol Vuh,
Nick Fraelich,
Spandau Ballet, Spandau Ballet, Spandau Ballet, Spandau Ballet.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.